Design Tips: To-Do List
Design Tips: To-Do List
This is what happens when I clean out my camera's hard drive... Not all of the video from this summer's project makes it to the final cut. But it's still funny. These are some highlights from a team design meeting during which we try to develop a prioritized to-do list.
Mousetrap and pencil
Mousetrap and pencil
Mouse trap set off with a pencil, shown in slow motion (by Harold Edgerton).
Electric Go-Kart: Test Drive #2
Electric Go-Kart: Test Drive #2
With a new set of custom motor controllers, we were able to test some of the more interesting features of the Cap Kart. More info:http://web.mit.edu/first/kart In addition to its batteries, the kart has a 110F ultracapacitor, which ultimately will be charged by a simple regenerative braking ...
More Electric Go-Kart Testing
More Electric Go-Kart Testing
This time with a guinea pig - I mean - driver. The custom motor controller is limited to to 33% of its maximum power so as not to damage anything.http://web.mit.edu/first/kart
How fast is fast?
How fast is fast?
Take a look at the life and effect that Harold "Doc" Edgerton had on MIT and the world.
Harold 'Doc' Edgerton, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the ...
Harold 'Doc' Edgerton, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the CALYPSO crew, 1954
Deploying deep-water camera equipment for an oceanographic research project in the Mediterranean sponsored by the National Geographic Society.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Harold 'Doc' Edgerton" on board ...
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Harold 'Doc' Edgerton" on board CALYPSO, 1954
Gearing up for scuba-diving survey on their second collaborative Mediterranean research expedition, accompanied by Cousteau's young son Philippe and Edgerton's eldest son Bill.
LEGO Animation of Mitosis (without descriptive titles)
LEGO Animation of Mitosis (without descriptive titles)
LEGO® Animations of Cell Division! The LEGO® Chromosome Set can be used to illustrate the two kinds of cell division: mitosis and meiosis. The key concept here is that mitosis produces identical cells while meiosis does not. The LEGO® fish in the set has three ...
LEGO Animation of Mitosis (with descriptive titles)
LEGO Animation of Mitosis (with descriptive titles)
LEGO® Animations of Cell Division! The LEGO® Chromosome Set can be used to illustrate the two kinds of cell division: mitosis and meiosis. The key concept here is that mitosis produces identical cells while meiosis does not. The LEGO® fish in the set has three ...
LEGO Animation of Meiosis (without descriptive titles)
LEGO Animation of Meiosis (without descriptive titles)
LEGO® Animations of Cell Division! The LEGO® Chromosome Set can be used to illustrate the two kinds of cell division: mitosis and meiosis. The key concept here is that mitosis produces identical cells while meiosis does not. The LEGO® fish in the set has three ...
LEGO Animation of Meiosis (with descriptive titles)
LEGO Animation of Meiosis (with descriptive titles)
LEGO® Animations of Cell Division! The LEGO® Chromosome Set can be used to illustrate the two kinds of cell division: mitosis and meiosis. The key concept here is that mitosis produces identical cells while meiosis does not. The LEGO® fish in the set has three ...
The Life and Works of Doc Edgerton
The Life and Works of Doc Edgerton
Institute Professor, Harold "Doc" Edgerton revolutionized photography with his high speed strobe lighting techniques. He came to MIT as a student in 1926. By the time of his passing in 1990 he had profoundly affected MIT and the world with his contributions to photography and underwater ...
Velocity of Light Demonstration
Velocity of Light Demonstration
Watch this silent film with descriptive boards of a demonstration on the velocity of light as performed by Doc Edgerton and some of his assistants.
Time Lapse on McDermott Court
Time Lapse on McDermott Court
Watch this time lapse film of McDermott Court (aka the Spot) made by Doc Edgerton.
Time Lapse Color Motion Pictures of the Whole Sky
Time Lapse Color Motion Pictures of the Whole Sky
Watch as the sun and clouds climb and zip across the sky in this time lapse film by Doc Edgerton.
Slow Motion of What Looks to be Potassium Reacting with ...
Slow Motion of What Looks to be Potassium Reacting with Water
Watch this reaction of some chemical (potassium?) as it isdropped into some fluid (water?) in this slow motion film by Doc Edgerton.
Single Flower Opening in Time Lapse
Single Flower Opening in Time Lapse
Watch this single flower open and close in this time lapse film by Doc Edgerton.
Setting Up and then Dropping an Egg on a Fan in Slow Motion
Setting Up and then Dropping an Egg on a Fan in Slow Motion
Watch the process as Doc sets up a strobe to capture in slow motion the dropping of an egg on a moving fan.
Plant Growing in Time Lapse
Plant Growing in Time Lapse
Watch this plant twirl and grow in this time lapse film by Doc Edgerton.
Milk Dropped in Coffee, Milk and on a Red Plate
Milk Dropped in Coffee, Milk and on a Red Plate
See what formations milk takes on when it is dropped in coffee, milk and on a red plate in this slow motion film by Doc Edgerton.